Rufus Bullock

Rufus Bullock (28 March 1834-27 April 1907) was Governor of Georgia (R) from 4 July 1868 to 30 October 1871, succeeding Thomas H. Ruger and preceding Benjamin F. Conley.

Biography
Rufus Bullock was born in Bethlehem, New York in 1834, and he moved to Augusta, Georgia in 1857 for his job with the Adams Express telegraph company. He served as Governor of Georgia from 1868 to 1871, and he placed the state under military rule to reinstate African-American voting rights. It was rumored that, when he was first elected, the election was held over the course of three days instead of one, and that trainloads of blacks stopped at each town along the way so that they could vote multiple times in each precinct, resulting in Bullock's election. These scandals made Bullock a hated figure, and, in 1871, the Ku Klux Klan forced him to resign the governorship. He was the last Republican governor of Georgia until Sonny Perdue in 2003 and the last progressive until Jimmy Carter in 1971, and he died in Albion, New York in 1907.